Improvement in weather-strfps



A. S. FISHER. WEATHER STRIP.

No. 35,224. Patented May 13, 1862.

Tee L gir UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 35,294. dated May 13,1862.

To aZZ whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, A. S. EIsn'ER, of Millville, in the county ofOrleans and State of N ew York, have inventeda new and usefulImprovement in \Veather-Strips; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a par of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a front viewof a'doorand frame withmy invention applied, a portion ofthe frame being broken away to showthe operation. Fig. 2 represents a sectional elevation of a door-framewith the door open. Fig. 3 is transverse section of a weathenstrip and aportion of a door, the section being taken at the line .1: i1. ot' Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a simple cont: vanee forclosing the space between the door and sill to exclude dust, rain, andwind in stormy and rainy weather.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, 1 will proceed to describe it.

A represents an ordinary door attached by hinges a Z) to the jamb B of aframing, which consists oi jambs B B, sill and cap I), fitted togetherin the usual manner.

The bottom edge of, the door has a groove made centrally through it, inwhich a metal box, 1/, contaiui ng the strip, is fitted flush with thebottom edge of the door and secured therein by screws passing thrmighthe flanges w of the box into the door.

A square metal bar, E, is fitted in the box to play freely through aholein one end of it, and is supported at'its opposite end by a pin, e,resting at its ends in the sides of the; box and passing through a slotin the bar. 'here this slot is made in the bar E it is turned down incylindrical form, and has a spiral spring, j, surrounding it, resting atone end against a shoulder on the bar and at the other against the pinpassing through the bar, which is for the purpose of drawing the stripup into the box when the door isopened, as shown in Fig. 3, and as willbe hereinafter fully explained. The india-rubber strip F- is securedin-a flanged metal strip, g, which is made the length of the box and isadapted to slide freely up and down therein, and is connected to, thebar F b y parallel links h i. As the door closes, the end of the barwhich projects through the box enters a recess formed in the jamb of thedoor-frame, and is gradually forced inward, and at the same time theindierubber strip, by means of its link-connection therewith, forceddown closely upon the doorsill, making a perfectly-tight joint, and thusexcluding dust, rain, and wind in stormy and *ainy weather. y

here, the links are attached the-bar E and flanged strip 9 are slittedto receive the links and thus allow them to assume nearly a horizontalposition when the door is and the strip drawn inthe box. 7

The weather-strip can be applied to any door and the projecting baroperated either from the front or back jamb. If arranged to operate onthe front jamb, an incline plane should be secured in the jamb andtheprojecting bar made to operate the same as a mortise-lock.-

The within-described attachment, when applied to'a door, is entirelywithin the thickness of the same, out of sight and out of' the way, anddoes not have that unsightly appearance as when attached on the outsideof the door, besides being less liable to injury or to get out of order.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire toseen re byLetters Patent, is

The arrangement of the horizontal spring f and the arms 71 iwith the barE, strip F, and jamb B B, as and for the purpose herein shown anddescribed.

A. 'S. FISHER. Witnesses:

D. L. SOUTHWORTH, P. C, BARTROM.

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